I posted about it on Facebook and the flood of kind words of support has been overwhelming. The offers to help me replace the guitar with donations have been nothing short of amazing. Yet again I am humbled and reminded of life's great balance, out of something so bad comes something as marvelous as the support of good people.
If you would like to donate please do, and thank you from the bottom of my heart for doing so. By way of a thank you I'll be recording my live shows and sharing them with anyone who donates. You'll find the link at live shows and on my website www.paolomorena.com and once I get a replacement guitar sorted I'll be recording the new album, so anyone who donates will get a mention on the new album too. I can't thank you all enough...much love Paolo
Here's what I posted.
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To the person who stole the guitar from the back seat of my car last night whilst it sat outside my mate's house on Nickleby Road….I say no worries.
I can’t afford to replace it just yet but I know somehow it’ll be alright, I’ll find a way to get through and move on.
I choose to believe that you were in a desperate place, maybe you’re struggling to pay the bills this month or you needed something as a gift for your kid and she always wanted a guitar, no worries.
Know that she’s got herself a real friend there. Teach her to take care of it, and it’ll be there on those occasions when she feels like nobody else is.
Show her how to string and tune it and one day when she finally figures out how to strum those seven chords she’ll feel like a wizard, like some keeper of secrets, just picking it up will make her feel understood.
Tell her that guitar has played for lords and ladies, it’s soothed the savage beasts and entertained the masses, it’s traveled the world and seen a hundred sunsets and sunrises. It’s brought a smile to the faces of countless others and had rooms full of strangers singing along at the top of their voices in blissful drunken unison.
I choose to surrender, I choose to move on. I trust that out of this there is something bigger and better and in time another awesome guitar.